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Klanmarks, ManuMeants & Plakkks: UnTour Book Across Occupied Turtle Island
Book Release Ceremony Yelamu (SF)
A reading with some of the Poets and Poverty skolaz
Poets:
Tiny – Tiny Gray-Garcia aka povertyskola has dealt with chronic homelessness, incarceration and poverty since she was 11 she is a Poet and co-founder of the Po Poets Project, teacher, author & daughter of Dee and the co–founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. co-founder & visionary of Homefulness- a homeless peoples solution to homelessness. and author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America, The Sidewalk motel – and many more
Victoria, Vick Montaño (They/Them) is a Po-scholar, interdisciplinary artist focusing on Indigenous Solidarity across seas and false man made borders, Queer liberation, the Land Back Movement, and reawakening/reclamation of Ancestral Knowledge. They were born, raised and are sustained in the Village of Huchiun which is now known as part of Oakland, Ca. Vick carries lineages from the Yo’eme and Mexikah Nahua peoples.
Muteado Silencio – indigenous and poverty skola, membre of the Po poets Project, staff writer with POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/ founding member and land liberator of Homefulness – member of the Voces de inmigrantes en resistencia con Prensa POBRE, Theatre of the POOR teacher at PeopleSkool – false border resistor, artist and danzante
Dee Allen is an African-Italian performance poet and member of the Po Poets Project of POOR Magazine based in Oakland. Author of 10 books–Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater, Skeletal Black, Elohi Unitsi [ pronounced “Ell-oh-ee Oo-nee-chee” ], Rusty Gallows, Plans, Crimson Stain, Discovery and his newest, The Mansion–and 78 anthology appearances.
Aunti Frances Moore is a Black disabled activist, elder, Black Panther and community leader, Po Poet and Poverty scholar with three books from Poor Press and co-founder of Homefulness and founder of the Self-Help Hunger Project .
The UnTour Book Across Occupied Turtle Island, is a new kind of “Tour” guide that unwashes stolen Turtle Island thru poetry, prayer, stories and art on Black/Brown & indigenous resistance to settler colonial erasure, genocide, poLice terror, & homelessness while lifting up the many acts of indigenous/ and ComeUnity resistance, liberation & reclamation across Mama Earth.
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The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project
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The Independent Musicians Alliance
Gigging musicians! You have nothing to lose but your lack of a collective voice to achieve fair wages for your work!
The IMA can be a conduit for you, if you join in to make it work.
https://www.independentmusiciansalliance.org/
Read more here - Andy Gilbert's Feb 25 article about the IMA from KQED's site